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Programmable display outside parking garage saying "Debian GNU".

Was in downtown Sac looking for some grub. Look what's gnu on the menu:

Saw an article about delays in Grand Theft Auto VI... I bet Grand Theft Auto EMACS will be even later.

You need the LLM that watches you play air guitar and generates music.

I remember years ago reading about conflicts between the Federales in Mexico and the municipal police, and I thought, "How could that happen?"

The one which looks like it's in focus? Maybe both shots have the same depth of field but the one on the right is thicker....

Feeling like I've just entered the 21st century. Got a printout from my fax machine confirming that it had sent something, because the LCD display is too faded to read the status messages.

If we're changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War, how long until the Department of Energy becomes the Department of Nukes?

Umm, isn't Comedy Central owned by Paramount? Haven't seen it, but this doesn't count as cowering does it?

For my DeFi entertainment I read @matt-levine.bsky.social 's MoneyStuff, and I thought that would keep me informed "enough". But TIL about the CLARITY act via a call from a (202) phone # from someone asking me to tell Congress to support the CLARITY bill so Americans could benefit from DeFi. ?!

Passed U.S. bill raises alarm for sports bettors President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act contains changes to laws that is raising alarms within the betting community.

Wow, something in the Big Beautiful Bill that, to me, has positive social implications? It's not going to last: www.espn.com/sports-betti...

I wonder if the Trump Phone is called "T1" because back in the day, that was a really high speed network connection. 1.544 Mbps!!

How many people here heard of the Posse Comitatus act because of a high school civics class? I'm drawing a blank on the name of my 9th grade teacher but really wishing more people had teachers like him.

except it's not MACO, it's MAIL, Musk Always Is Late.

Caltech Giving Day 2025 Join me and make a gift to #CaltechGivingDay 2025!

Sorry, kind of late on this, but Erik Hille, Ed Nanale, Deepinder Brar and I have a challenge match for scholarships for underrepresented students at Caltech as part of #CaltechGivingDay. www.givecampus.com/schools/Cali...

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”[hebrews 13:5]

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

I haven't seen that much about this on my feed so if you're near Palo Alto, there's a rally at Lytton Plaza Friday, (today!) March 7 at Noon. I'll be there, hope you will, too! This will be one of many events across the country, check out standupforscience2025.org sccdp.org/index.php/ev...

This morning I had a little bit of leftover salmon which had been caught in British Columbia. I guess maybe I'll get some local fish next week?

Capitalism at work ... At my local farmer's market there are now lots of stands selling eggs in addition to their regular stuff. I guess the price has gotten high enough that we have increased small-scale production. It's our Great Leap Forward!

On the positive side, the Fed is still brave enough to say things like this? For now.

This all actually reminds me a lot of discussions as a freshman in college taking probability when working on homework assignments together. We had the same problems dealing with the ambiguity, and similar circular discussions.

Gemini 2.0 Flash provides both answers but doesn't seem to notice that it's doing so: :-(

Interestingly, chatGPT-4 quickly provided the answer assuming replacement, and took additional prompting to get it to do the case without replacement. 4/

and then went spiraling out of control, even though they found both correct answers: pastebin.com/YXP9nQ24 3/

I posed the question "If we have a bin with N balls which we draw from randomly, and draw until we get a particular one, what is the expected number of draws?". When I wrote it, I thought it was clear that it meant "draw without replacement", but deepseek-r1-7b and 8b both wrestled with it 2/

Deepseek-r1's chain of thought is fascinating to watch. This seems like a great leap forward ;-). I wonder if it's a consequence of training it on problems which lack ambiguity but it seems reluctant to just say, "Did you mean (a), if so then X else Y?" 1/

Didn't we use to call those magazines?

Sold $tsla stock for $420 on the eve of the second Trump presidency.

(above is a screenshot from Nixon by Stephen Ambrose)

Wow, reading her Wikipedia entry is pretty amazing.
Eisenhower had encouraged her to consider running for president in 1960(though the GOP ended up running his VP Nixon of course.)

We Asked the Math Tutor Who Posts His Lessons on Pornhub: Why? A math tutor has raked in over a million views on Pornhub by teaching calculus in a hoodie.

Don't know about politics, but there are calculus lessons: www.vice.com/en/article/m...